India, Dec. 15 -- Have you ever seen a Gramophone? Or touched a floppy disk? Chances are the answer to both these questions is a confused shrug- specially if you are from the Gen Alpha flock. You are more likely to see these wonders in a museum than in anyone's drawing room or computer desk - or so you assume. And yet, these things were once the blue-eyed boys of their era.

So if you ever get to see either of these two relics, you would be able to wrap your head around HDDs - more easily. When the needle touches the groove of a gramophone, you can see it changing those grooves into soft swimming waves of sound through a horn (also- making old admirers immediately dig themselves into a deep chair, close their eyes and start swaying their ...